Tina Anselmi

Tina Anselmi (25 March 1927-1 November 2016) was a Christian Democracy politician. An Italian Resistance veteran of World War II, she went on to become the first woman to hold a ministerial position in the Italian government.

Biography
Tina Anselmi was born in Castelfranco Veneto, Veneto, Italy in 1927, and she served in the Cesare Battisti Brigade of the Italian Resistance during World War II. In 1944, she joined Christian Democracy, and she taught primary school after the war's end. While working as a teacher, she was involved with Christian trade unions, and she joined the DC national council in 1959, serving as the party's deputy leader from 1968 to 1992. From 1968 to 1987, she served in the Chamber of Deputies, and she proposed equal opportunity laws; from 1978 to 1979, she served as Health Minister, becoming the first woman minister in the Italian government. Anselmi left the Chamber in 1987, and she died in 2016 at the age of 89.